Blest Savior, Be My Pilot WiseDon Fortner

(Tune: #228 – My Faith has Found a Resting Place    CMD)

 

1.                  I ask for grace, for grace divine,

            To cross the stormy sea.

            For Christ I would the world resign.

            O give such grace to me!

            Blest Savior, be my Pilot wise,

            Your path is in the sea;

            Grant grace the billows to despise,

            Which often trouble me.

 

2.                  I must, if I would see Your work,

            Go though the waters deep.

            Yet, You have promised in Your Word

            My soul to safely keep.

            Far more the deadly calm I dread,

            Which lets me feel I’m strong,

            Than storms that rage over my head,

            And make my weakness known.

 

3.                  By faith I see the heav’nly shore,

            The haven of sweet rest,

            Where winds and waves disturb no more,

            Where nothing can distress!

            O Holy Spirit, heav’nly Wind,

            (O blessed Gale of grace!)

            Come, sail me quickly to my Friend

            In heav’n, my resting place!